Discussion: WebGPU and Client-Side Machine Learning | 0411-1621

The Privacy Revolution: Why WebGPU is the End of Cloud-Only AI For the longest time, implementing AI features meant one thing: sending user data to a remote server. Whether it's an OpenAI API call or a custom stable diffusion backend, the user's privacy was always a secondary consideration compared to compute needs. However, the stable release of WebGPU across major browsers has changed the game. We can now leverage the user's hardware to perform heavy lifting that was previously impossible i...